International studio (60.1916/1917)

Studio-Talk

The fourth exhibition by the Kokumin Bijutsu
Kyokai was held at Takenodai, Uyeno Park.
This association, since its organisation several years
ago by leading artists of the country, has been
taking an active interest in the art world of Japan.
The latest work which it undertook was in connec-
tion with the remodelling of the Tokyo School of
Fine Arts—an affair which has assumed consider-
able magnitude, claiming the attention of the
whole country. In consequence of differences of


“a washerwoman ”
WOOD SCULPTURE BY UYEDA-NAOJI

opinion among its members, the association has
recently lost a number of its influential adherents;
but notwithstanding this, its recent exhibition
was enthusiastically supported. The display in-
cluded some praiseworthy paintings in the Japanese
and European styles and good examples of
applied and decorative art, but the chief feature
was the sculpture, consisting of about fifty pieces.


“the stare” (plaster)

BY SHINKAI TAKEZO

Among wood carvings, Ikeda-Yuhachi’s Glass-
blower, like Uyeda-Naoji’s A Washerwoman,


“ glass-blower”
wood sculpture by ikeda-yuhachi

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